Is Passive Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From Adult Grammaticality Judgment and Comprehension Studies

To explain the phenomenon that certain English verbs resist passivization (e.g., *£5 was cost by the book), Pinker (1989) proposed a semantic constraint on the passive in the adult grammar: The greater the extent to which a verb denotes an action where a patient is affected or acted upon, the greate...

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Autores principales: Ambridge, Ben, Bidgood, Amy, Pine, Julian M., Rowland, Caroline F., Freudenthal, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26607289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12277

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